I wrote a tool the other day, and thought I would share it in case anybody finds it useful or has some suggestions for it.

It allows you to create your own search engine plugins for Firefox. It is a 3 step no-brainer and pretty useful if you find yourself regularly doing searches on your intranet or at the library or some other random search for which a plugin has not been written.

http://www.vdomck.org/tools/urlToFireFoxSearch.cgi

Here is a (long) URL that gives you a plugin for the Washoe County Library:
http://www.vdomck.org/tools/urlToFireFoxSearch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.washoe.lib.nv.us%2Fipac20%2Fipac.jsp%3Fsession%3D10QP22Q738906.26397%26menu%3Dhome%26aspect%3Dbasic%26npp%3D20%26ipp%3D20%26profile%3Ddial%26ri%3D%26term%3Dmysearchwords%26index%3DK%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%26aspect%3Dbasic%26term%3D%26index%3DTK%26term%3D%26index%3DA%26term%3D%26index%3DSK&name=Washoe+Co+Library

Mike

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